I think most of us can agree that sometimes neighbors can be terrible and every single day, i am getting more and more frustrated with my neighbors. As most of you may be aware, I have a neighbors who have a gsd and 3 kids and they run a small business. When we first moved in, we were super enthusiastic about being friends with these people because they seemed pretty decent. Over time, we have realized we are totally wrong about everything we thought before.

Let me start off with my sister and the logo design. My sister is the logo designer for their company and she is an amazing artist. She wants to do that as her career and so when they liked her designs and asked her to be their logo designer, she was more than happy to do it for a price. They agreed to pay her but as an artist they are supposed to pay her by the hour. Due to their constant demands and changes and needing for multiple logos, my sister sent the designs over and when they finally approved of them, she had spent over 100 hours and countless days working on these pieces. Without saying anything, they printed her logos onto their products and never paid her. Upon further research, my sister is owed about $1000 for her two logos and several cuts of the designs. We dont know what to do and they haven't mentioned paying her at all.

This weekend, they went to a fair and sold their products(with my sisters logo on them). They asked me to babysit from 7am to 3pm for $10 and hour(less than what I would normally make). Since I have no other source of income right now, I agreed and calculated beforehand that I would have made $80 which isn't a lot but still something I can put towards my college funds since I have been attending college. Two of their kids have mental health/behavioral issues and the youngest is very young. They are between the ages of 10 and 2. Their GSD is also in heat and because of her heat cycle, i had to constantly clean up her blood. They got back at 3:02 and didn't tell anyone and instead stayed in the garage until 3:30 so I was technically babysitting for 8.5 hours. They paid me and i didn't count it but went over to my house and then counted it. They only paid me $70. My mom was very angry and did a ton of research on how much I should have actually been paid if I would have charged "normal" prices. Here it is 16.50 and hour for one child plus one to two dollars per additional child. So I was no where near paid what I actually deserve.

Now for their dog. They have a huge female GSD who isn't trained or socialized other than with the dogs on either sides of its fence. My puppy being one of them. She is trained via shock collar and even then, she doesn't listen and is left outside without water and never has water inside either. (When I am over there, I make a point to give her some and let her in when she needs in). She was playing with my puppy today when the neighbors came outside and riled her up and she bit my puppy through the fence. Maggie yelped and all the owners said was the dogs name(not in a mean way) and then we just picked up our puppy and put her inside. Now they also plan on breeding their dog. Not for any other reason except to breed her. They like puppies and want to see puppies so they will breed her starting her next heat and then give the puppies away.

They stay up until 1am(sometimes later) and run saws in their garage to cut wood and do i dont even know what. It's so loud and they leave the door open and they know we all have to leave our windows open because we don't have AC and the dust gets in our house and we can't sleep and its just seriously inconvenient and annoying and just loud. We are exhausted.

Since we are really the only ones that know about this, we dont want to call anyone and them realize that it was us since they could easily become violent and hostile making our lives hell. Its just so frustrating and they are the defining of sh*tty neighbors.

Luminescence said:

Oh. My. God. The nerves of these people. First off, is your pup okay?

And second of all, I think at this point, authorities can get involved. Not paying, agressive animals, animal neglect is what I found to be legal problems. Im really sorry this is happening. Perhaps you could have dinner with them (at your house?) And politely explain/ask that they not use loud machines late in the night.

Edit: and thats seriously horrible and wrong that they're planning on breeding their dog. It disgusts me the people who breed just to breed, and have untrained, neglected dogs. Pregnant women (animal or human) need special care and attention, and a pregnant bitch is a lot of money to take care of. Considering that they haven't paid you or your sister makes me very worried about what they would force this poor dog through

Diagon Alley Elites said:

Luminescence said:

Oh. My. God. The nerves of these people. First off, is your pup okay?

And second of all, I think at this point, authorities can get involved. Not paying, agressive animals, animal neglect is what I found to be legal problems. Im really sorry this is happening. Perhaps you could have dinner with them (at your house?) And politely explain/ask that they not use loud machines late in the night.

Edit: and thats seriously horrible and wrong that they're planning on breeding their dog. It disgusts me the people who breed just to breed, and have untrained, neglected dogs. Pregnant women (animal or human) need special care and attention, and a pregnant bitch is a lot of money to take care of. Considering that they haven't paid you or your sister makes me very worried about what they would force this poor dog through

This. From what you've written it doesn't seem like they've done any health testing, which is really important for breeding, especially in breeds like German Shepherds. And if she is outside without water that is not okay, especially in the summer. I don't know where you're located but if you live in a warm place it is even worse. And I feel bad for that dog. GSD's are wonderful dogs with training and socialization, but they've completely ruined her at no fault of her own. This makes me wonder if she is well-bred and from a responsible breeder because I don't think any responsible breeder would sell a dog to them. And the fact that they didn't pay you or your sister is I'm almost positive against the law, especially if she is a proffessional. I definitely think you should get the authorities involved I just hope nothing bad happens to the dog because she did nothing wrong and I'm sure with the right owners she could be a great dog. I hope she gets a home where she is treated better and is actually given a chance to be a happy dog and well-trained and socialized. If you ever need to talk, feel free to PM me.